Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
continually—answering to "all the day" (Isaiah 65:2). God was continually inviting them, and they continually offending Him (Deuteronomy 32:21).
to my face—They made no attempt to hide their sin (Isaiah 3:9). Compare "before Me" (Exodus 20:3).
in gardens—(See on Isaiah 1:29; Isaiah 66:17; Leviticus 17:5).
altars of brick—Hebrew, "bricks." God had commanded His altars to be of unhewn stone (Exodus 20:25). This was in order to separate them, even in external respects, from idolaters; also, as all chiselling was forbidden, they could not inscribe superstitious symbols on them as the heathen did. Bricks were more easily so inscribed than stone; hence their use for the cuneiform inscriptions at Babylon, and also for idolatrous altars. Some, not so well, have supposed that the "bricks" here mean the flat brick-paved roofs of houses on which they sacrificed to the sun, etc. (II Kings 23:12; Jeremiah 19:13).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 65:3:
Isaiah 64:12
Isaiah 65:15
Isaiah 66:4
Isaiah 66:17
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